No Wells? No Burroughs? No EE Doc Smith? No Verne? lame.
ETA : I missed 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in the list. Thanks @Ratel
Edit again : missed The Time Machine. Thanks @daneel
I have noticed the list changes order each time I load the page and the layout makes it way too easy to miss something.

Yeah, they leave out those guys but include The Hunger Games?! Christ on a bike.

Half-assery at work. Discworld is present as it should be, but poorly represented by The Color of Magic. Even Pratchett said nobody should start reading Discworld books with that one. They got soooo much better after the first two.

And any space opera from that era but Lensman is awesome with things like instant communication across the galaxy. Inertialess FTL travel. Ray guns that will level cities. Yet everyone still uses slide rules.

CHina Mieville is good, but, Perdido Street Station is not that great for a list like this. The City and The City would have been a better choice
I, Robot is quite weak for Asimov. The End of Eternity or The Gods Themselves would be better
No Greg Egan? If you ask me, Permutation City is much better than Altered Carbon and quite a few others on the list

This list does have one halfway-decent advantage: a third of the authors are women. It’s still mostly white and male. I’d prefer to see Barbara Hambly on the list over Suzanne Collins, at any rate. My lifetime would have been measurably better had I not wasted a couple afternoons of it on The Hunger Games.

I can’t believe the only copy of this I could find online was recorded by some idiot who thought it was real and then was deeply offended.

I read the whole damned series – a bunch of us passed it about in 7th grade, I think, and none of us could believe there hadn’t been litigation involved – although maybe if there had been he could have claimed satire.

An entirely reasonable list, and the primary purpose of creating any list of “N works to be read in a lifetime” is to argue about how X was included when Y was clearly overlooked, what deserves to be on such a list, and why.

I just want to whinge about the recent(?) tendency to treat “science fiction and fantasy” as a monolithic genre and would much rather see two separate lists. Because I cannot abide in a world where ‘Guilty Pleasures’ makes the cut while Vonnegut, Banks, and Reynolds fail to claim a spot at all!

And is Solaris really Lem’s best work? Wouldn’t Fiasco or The Cyberiad have been better choices? Oh goodness me, I’ve started already. Time to get the blood pressure meds.

EDIT: As noahdjango rightly points out, I missed Slaughterhouse Five in my rush to feel indignant. I stand by my original complaint regarding Banks and Reynolds, however.